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Guest Bio: Dom D’Agostino, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the department of molecular pharmacology and physiology at the University of South Florida Morsani College of Medicine, and a senior research scientist at the Institute for Human and Machine Cognition (IHMC). He was also recently a crew member of the NASA NEEMO 22 project.

Topics Discussed: Ketogenic wine; most wine kicks you out of ketosis; you can drink two glasses of wine and stay in ketosis; a ketogenic diet helps things like pediatric epilepsy; how he got into the ketogenic diet and how it works in the body; the ketogenic diet has been around for a long time; a ketogenic diet is useful to animals; carbs aren’t listed on dog foods; dogs shouldn’t be eating any grains; Keto Pet Sanctuary; how long he’s been into the keto diet; talk about his work with the ketogenic diet and the military; epileptic Mike Dancer; kids and the ketogenic diet; ratios for the ketogenic diet; Avatar Nutrition app; he’s Italian but doesn’t eat pasta; The Paleo Solution book; exercising and ketogenic diet; types of slow carbs; he takes creatine supplements; he was underwater with NASA for 10 days and had to diet before it; counting your macros is important; meatheads who are critical of the ketogenic diet and their criticisms; the benefits of the ketogenic will take months to appear; keto flu; you don’t crash after eating a meal on the ketogenic diet; Dom talks about a study where people fasted for 40 days; glucose transporter type 1 deficiency syndrome; MCT oil; functioning on an extreme lack of sleep; Kegenix drink mix; Pruvit Keto OS drink mix; he eats canned chicken and Wild Planet sardines; (1:00:00) more talk about what he eats; sardines and heavy metals; Joe talks about eating too many sardines and testing for arsenic; he uses Butcher Box for meat; get your blood work done; eating too much fish can be bad for you; he eats canned oysters; magnesium supplements; you get magnesium from floating in an isolation tank; Epsom salt baths; magnesium is calming; ALS and the ketogenic diet; eating a typical diet and taking exogenous ketones to get into ketosis; ketones as fuel for the brain vs. glucose; Joe thinks everyone should be on the ketogenic diet; simply restricting your carbohydrate intake is helpful; people who suffer from type 2 diabetes should be on a ketogenic diet; why is it beneficial for the body to live off fats compared to glucose; athletes should be on the ketogenic diet; people need to keep track of what they eat to ensure they’re eating the proper amounts of fats, carbs, and protein on the ketogenic diet; glucose makes you feel weird; Keto Cookies; ENERGYbits tablets; he thinks his career is more successful because of the keto diet; keto diet can reduce anxiety/fear behavior; keto can help bowhunting; Wim Hof and breathing talk; keto ice cream; more talk about keto junk foods; Cave Shakes; he’s never had a good keto pasta; The Art and Science of Low Carbohydrate Performance book; Italian food and how its wheat/flour is different; Dom had no stomach issues eating pasta/pizza in Italy; “Is 00 Flour Worth the Price?” article; more talk about eating carbs and then taking exogenous ketones; we become more carbohydrate intolerant as we age; pharmaceutical companies have interest in exogenous ketones; MaxLove Project; cancer patients and keto diets; (2:00:00)hypberbaric chambers and cancer; keto diet exploded in popularity in 2013; everyone should eat this way regularly, if not all the time; shingles and the keto diet; HIV and the keto diet; exogenous ketones and healing wounds; hunting while hungry; fasting talk; talk about fasting for a week and how much better he felt; he was obsessed with Dorian Yates and would eat six times per day; more talk about how awesome he feels and how much he accomplishes; man who fasted for 382 days; athletes and keto diets; time restricted eating/eating during certain times of the day; more fasting talk; Ketonix breathalyzer for measuring ketosis; more talk about athletes and ketogenic diets; migraines and ketogenic diets; vegan/vegetarians and ketogenic diets; eggs and dairy; some people lose more weight on a keto diet when not eating dairy; CBD hemp oil; more talk about cancer patients and keto; Cancer as a Metabolic Disease book; Tripping Over the Truth book; KetoNutrition.org; The Charlie Foundation; First Do No Harm movie.

Books Mentioned

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